CURRENTLY SOLD OUT

A Familiar Strangeness: American Fiction and the Language of Photography, 1839-1945 by Stuart Burrows (Hardback, 2008)

About this product

Product Information

This is a radically new account of the relationship between American literature and photography.Literary critics have traditionally suggested that the invention of photography led to the rise of the realist vel, which is believed to imitate the detail and accuracy of the photographic image. Instead, says Stuart Burrows, photography's influence on American fiction had less to do with any formal similarity between the two media than with the capacity of photography to render American identity and history homogeneous and reproducible. The camera, according to Burrows, provoked a representational crisis, one broadly modernist in character. Since the photograph is t only a copy of its subject but a physical product of it, the camera can be seen as actually challenging mimetic or realistic theories of representation, which depend on a recognizable gap between original and reproduction.Burrows argues for the centrality of photography to a set of writers commonly thought of as hostile to the camera - including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, William Faulkner, and Zora Neale Hurston. The photographic metaphors and allusions to the medium that appear throughout these writers' work demonstrate the ways in which one representational form actually influences ather - by changing how artists conceive of identity, history, and art itself. A Familiar Strangeness thus challenges the tion of an absolute break between nineteenth-century realism and twentieth-century modernism, a break that typically centers precisely on the two movements' supposedly differing relation to the camera. Just as modernist fiction interrupts and questions the link between visuality and kwledge, so American realist fiction can be understood as making the world less kwable precisely by making it more visible.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820331740
ISBN-13
9780820331744
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95757861

Product Key Features

Author
Stuart Burrows
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Type
Textbook

Dimensions

Height
229mm
Width
152mm

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Georgia
Author Biography
Stuart Burrows Is an Assistant Professor of English at Brown University.
Out-Of-Print Date
30/09/2016
Date of Publication
15/11/2008
Country of Publication
United States
Genre
Literary Criticism

Best Selling in Adult Learning & University

See all

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Best Selling in Adult Learning & University

Australian Guidebook for Structural Engineers by Lonnie Pack (Paperback, 2019)
No ratings or reviews yet.
AU $84.19 New
---- Used
Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Religious Studies Route B: Catholic Christianity and Judaism by Deirdre Cleary, Andrew Barron, Joy White, Patrick Harrison (Paperback, 2017)
No ratings or reviews yet.
AU $100.97 New
---- Used
Time Management by Peter Quarry (Paperback, 1986)
No ratings or reviews yet.
AU $16.99 New
---- Used
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (Paperback, 2007)
5.0 out of 5 stars based on 1 product rating
AU $30.02 New
---- Used

Save on Adult Learning & University

Current slide {CURRENT_SLIDE} of {TOTAL_SLIDES}- Save on Adult Learning & University

The Australian Native Bee Hive Book: Keeping Stingless Sugarbag OATH Tim Heard
AU $31.98
Trending at AU $35.55
Weed Forager's Handbook: A Guide to Edible and Medicinal Weeds in Australia by A
AU $19.95
Trending at AU $20.64
Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: Classic Regional Approach
AU $113.94
Trending at AU $122.07
Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum by George Hrabovsky
AU $27.46
Trending at AU $31.57
Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs
AU $74.99
Trending at AU $76.69
Phillip J. Anderson The Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking (Hardback)
AU $94.61
Trending at AU $99.41

Shop by category

A Familiar Strangeness: American Fiction and the Language of Photography, 1839-1945 by Stuart Burrows (Hardback, 2008)

About this product

Product Information

Product Identifiers

Product Key Features

Dimensions

Additional Product Features

Best Selling in Adult Learning & University

Australian Guidebook for Structural Engineers by Lonnie Pack (Paperback, 2019)

Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Religious Studies Route B: Catholic Christianity and Judaism by Deirdre Cleary, Andrew Barron, Joy White, Patrick Harrison (Paperback, 2017)

Time Management by Peter Quarry (Paperback, 1986)

The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappe (Paperback, 2007)

Save on Adult Learning & University

The Australian Native Bee Hive Book: Keeping Stingless Sugarbag OATH Tim Heard

Weed Forager's Handbook: A Guide to Edible and Medicinal Weeds in Australia by A

Netter Atlas of Human Anatomy: Classic Regional Approach

Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum by George Hrabovsky

Havard's Nursing Guide to Drugs

Phillip J. Anderson The Secret Life of Real Estate and Banking (Hardback)

You may also like

Doctor Strange American Comics & Graphic Novels

Stuart Woods Fiction & Fiction Books

Stuart Woods Fiction Paperback Fiction & Books

Stuart Woods Fiction Novels-Fiction Books

Stuart Woods Fiction & Fiction Books in English

William Stuart Long Fiction Books